Mayor Brandon Johnson

Well, first of all, I was in Springfield to fight for progressive revenue.

I would have much preferred to focus our energy there.

In fact, for the last couple of years, Springfield has gone silent on the Bears.

I was elected to defend Chicago, and I still believe that the best place for the Bears to play is in the city of Chicago.

I don't know why we would incentivize the Bears to take jobs outside of the city of Chicago.

I don't know why we would incentivize property tax

reprieve that they would receive when they don't have to pay property taxes in chicago right because it's a publicly owned stadium it would remain a publicly owned stadium the best viable location for the chicago bears to play is the top tourist destination i'm going to continue to work with city council with the state legislature with the governor to continue to build safe and affordable communities and the way in which we can do that is by creating 20 more green space downtown on the lakefront

with thousands of jobs and people can benefit from it economically.

We're building a soccer stadium, the 1901 project on the west side of Chicago.

We're building a brand new hospital for the first time in 100 years on the south side of Chicago.

So all of this economic vibrancy is happening at a time in which our airport is the busiest in America.

More tourists are coming here than any other time in the history of Chicago.

The best place to do business is in the city of Chicago.